Monday's child is fair in face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,...Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child works hard for its living;And a child that is born on a Christmas day,Is fair and wise, good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constr...aining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man--weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinner...s; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, a...nd of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,...Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child works for its living,And a child that's born on the Sabbath dayIs fair and wise and good and gay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion of grace or any sense of the fit...ness of things, to tolerate ... the styles of dress to which we are more or less conforming every day of our lives. Fifty years hence they will seem to us as uncultivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot seem today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »